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Ian W.
Brown (PhD Brown, 1979) is an archaeologist
who specializes in the Indians of the southeastern United States, historical
archaeology, ethnohistory, and acculturation theory. He has published
widely on the history of archaeology, prehistoric Indian culture history,
settlement patterns, ceremonialism, ceramics, and various aspects of trade and
technology, especially regarding the use of salt by Indian populations.
Most of his research has been in the Lower Mississippi Valley, the southwest
coast of Louisiana, and in the Mobile-Tensaw delta of Alabama, where he has
excavated many prehistoric and historic sites. In the last several years
he participated in a study of salt in the Three Gorges region of China and
directed excavations at the original Tabasco factory on Avery Island, Louisiana.
Currently he is conducting a survey of cemeteries in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
Brown is Curator of Gulf Coast Archaeology at the Alabama Museum of Natural
History.
Prof. Brown was honored with the Outstanding Commitment to
Students Award of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2000. He served as
the President of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (1992-94) and since
1997 he has been the Chair of the Society for American Archaeology National
Historic Landmark Committee. He is also a member of the National
Historic Landmarks Committee of the National Park System Advisory Board.
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Selected
Publications
2003. (Editor) Bottle Creek,
A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama. The University of Alabama
Press, Tuscaloosa.
1999. Salt Manufacture and Trade from the
Perspective of Avery Island, Louisiana. Midcontinental
Journal of Archaeology 24(2):113-151.
1999. Contact, Communication, and Exchange:
Some Thoughts on the Rapid Movement
of Ideas and Objects. In Raw Materials and Exchange in the Mid-South, edited
by Evan Peacock and Samuel O. Brookes, pp. 132-141. Mississippi
Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No.
29. Jackson.
1998. Benjamin L. C. Wailes and the Archaeology of
Mississippi. Mississippi Archaeology
33(2):157-191.
1998. Decorated
Pottery of the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Sorting Manual. Mississippi
Archaeological Association, Mississippi Department of Archives and History,
Jackson.
1998. The Eighteenth-Century Natchez Chiefdom. In
The
Natchez District in the Old,
Old South, edited by Vincas P. Steponaitis, pp. 49-65. Southern Research Report No. 11. Academic Affairs Library,
Center for the Study of the American
South, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
1998. Fatherland Site. In Archaeology
of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia,
edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 269-270. Garland Publishing, Inc.,
New York and London.
1998. The Mound Island Project: An
Archaeological Survey in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta,
by Richard S. Fuller and Ian W. Brown. Bulletin of the
Alabama Museum
of Natural History No. 19.
1998. Plaquemine Culture. In
Archaeology
of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia,
edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 657-659. Garland Publishing, Inc.,
New York and London.
1997. Life Forms in Clay. Nature
South 7(1): 5-8.
1996. Alabama
Archeology, Now and Forever? (Kristen Zschomler and Ian W. Brown). Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery.
1995. The Mystery of Mound Island (Richard
S. Fuller and Ian W. Brown). Nature South 5(1): 5-10.
1994. Recent Trends in the Archaeology of the Southeastern
United States. Journal of Archaeological Research 2(1):
45-111.
1993. The New England Cemetery as a Cultural Landscape. In
History from Things: Working Papers on Material Culture. Steven
Lubar and W. David Kingery, editors. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp.
140-159.
1992. Certain Aspects of French-Indian Interaction in Lower
Louisiane. In Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 17-34.
1989. The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast and its
Archaeological Manifestations. American Antiquity 54(2):
311-33.
1989. College Teaching is a Funny Business. In
On Teaching and Learning: The Journal of the Harvard-Danforth Center.
April, pp. 36-46.
1985. Natchez Indian Archaeology:
Culture Change and Stability in the Lower Mississippi Valley. MIssissippi
Department of Archives and History Archaeolgoical Report No. 15. Jackson.
1985. Plaquemine Architectural Patterns in the Natchez
Bluffs and Surrounding Regions of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Midcontinental
Journal of Archaeology 10(2): 250-305.
1984. Late Prehistory in Coastal Lousiana: The Coles Creek
Period. In Perspectives on Gulf Coast Prehistory. David D.
Davis, editor. Ripley P. Bullen Monographs in Anthropology and History No. 5. University
Presses of Florida, Gainesville.
1982. The Southeastern Check Stamped
Pottery Tradition: A View from Lousiana. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
Special Paper No. 4. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.
1980. Salt and the Eastern North
American Indian. Lower Mississippi Survey Bulletin No. 6. Peabody Museum, Harvard
University.
Electronic Course Materials and Syllabi for Dr.
Brown
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